This is great work; absolutely something the Linux world needs.
Only I wish they would divert more from MacOS X / iPad OS in terms of colours and loose the reference to iPad in the marketing copy.
JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
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Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#92For Linux users, we look for credible source for something as important as Operating Systems. Usually from known entity or open source community. It would be great if you can clarify. Also since it is just getting started, you would be better off not using iPad, Apple kind of words. Instead use neutral terms like Linux OS optimized for Tablets, before it is too late. Also heavy influence of Apple Marketing on your pr…
I'm scratching my head as to why they mentioned "iPad" as well. Android is already a Linux tablet OS. It's like they ignored the elephant in the room. Ubuntu also runs on tablets. (edit: this is based in Ubuntu!) Besides that point, Apple is pretty much the opposite of free computing. It's a gross comparison. Edit: Looking at their Reddit timeline, it appears as though they've made a lot of progress in a few short mo…
The iPad is the only device I own that's not running Linux. It is so damn good for the price, the UI is so smooth, so well designed, there is just so much polish. I bought the 128GB version with a pencil for 350€ used.
I am longing for a Linux alternative, but any Android tablets of similarly high quality are just so much more expensive, and actual Linux is still far away in terms of usability.
What I want is an iPad, but with Linux. I'm sure I'm not the only one, and Jingling knows that.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#93For Linux users, we look for credible source for something as important as Operating Systems. Usually from known entity or open source community. It would be great if you can clarify. Also since it is just getting started, you would be better off not using iPad, Apple kind of words. Instead use neutral terms like Linux OS optimized for Tablets, before it is too late. Also heavy influence of Apple Marketing on your pr…
Hard disagree on the “Apple kind of words” stuff. The iPad is the best tablet. I wish there were good competitors, I’d buy them, but there aren’t. To the extent someone can make a tablet OS with the look and affordances of iPadOS but with the added ability to do stuff iPadOS won’t allow (like writing/compiling code), they should absolutely be encouraged to do so.
Why? Sure samsung ships a horrible android, but in what things is a clean real android behind iOS?
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#94Unfortunate name [0] :| or perhaps it was intended? Very clever then.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s almost in spite of Tablet Windows though.
That is to be expected. There are plenty of countries where iPads are out of reach for regular consumer, and Android Tablets are in practice phones with bigger screens, given how little the ecosystem cares about them, so that leaves Windows devices as only choice for consumers.
> Android Tablets are in practice phones with bigger screens
How do iPads differ?
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm scratching my head as to why they mentioned "iPad" as well. Android is already a Linux tablet OS. It's like they ignored the elephant in the room. Ubuntu also runs on tablets. (edit: this is based in Ubuntu!) Besides that point, Apple is pretty much the opposite of free computing. It's a gross comparison. Edit: Looking at their Reddit timeline, it appears as though they've made a lot of progress in a few short mo…
They're copying the iPad because it's the only tablet that doesn't suck and sells in any meaningful numbers.
What are people doing with their tablets that a iPad is a meaningful benefit?
I could read my shitter news on any device with a screen, as well as control my smart home.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#97why a distro? why not a desktop environment?
They're doing both!
> JingOS is based on Ubuntu 20.04, KDE v5.75, Plasma Mobile 5.20. We will replace the framework from Plasma Mobile to JDE(Jing Desktop Environment) later this year.
> The project will open-source step by step on GitHub: JingOS-team[1]
So later this year, hopefully, you'll be able to install JDE on any tablet running Linux, though I suspect it won't be 100% smooth from the get-go.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#98I suppose it is a matter of approach.
But if you have a group with the design chops capable of producing this; then surely you can make so it doesn't look like a deliberate Apple copy?
Just look at the comments here in this thread; half of the reaction is about this is a rip off of Apple and legal this and that, ignoring what a massive contribution a well-designed tablet UI is.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#99Unfortunate name [0] :| or perhaps it was intended? Very clever then. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingoism
The company is called Jingling which seems to be a Chinese city, so I highly doubt they named it after some obscure English expression.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hard disagree on the “Apple kind of words” stuff. The iPad is the best tablet. I wish there were good competitors, I’d buy them, but there aren’t. To the extent someone can make a tablet OS with the look and affordances of iPadOS but with the added ability to do stuff iPadOS won’t allow (like writing/compiling code), they should absolutely be encouraged to do so.
Why? Sure samsung ships a horrible android, but in what things is a clean real android behind iOS?
Are there any android tablets with a decent chip in them? Almost everyone I’ve seen is using a very weak CPU.
The iPad chips just run away from even the top end android tablets. Maybe I wouldn’t care as much but my experience on android tablets is they are just laggy. Slow to open things, little stutters throughout the OS, etc.